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Modern Moral Problems

Trustworthy Answers to Your Tough Questions

Modern Moral Problems addresses moral quandaries that can beguile and confuse faithful Catholics. Written in a question-and-answer format, the book covers questions regarding sexuality, medical ethics, business practices, civic responsibilities, and the sacramental life of the Church. The extraordinary assortment of issuesforming a single, organized collectionis a valuable reference for anyone seeking clear and concise answers to tough moral questions. Written in a conversational tone often spliced with humor, this work by a highly respected moral theologian will be read with fascination for its clarity of argument and fundamental good sense. Originally published as a monthly question-and-answer column in a magazine for priests, these selections by Msgr. William B. Smith retain a striking current topicality. Msgr. Smith often tackled matters of controversy in the Catholic Church, ones which continue to draw conflicting opinions. Interesting, informative, and eminently practical, this book conveys an overall impression that sound thinking about morality is rooted in a tradition within the Catholic Church, even when the answers to particular moral questions cannot be found in catechisms or Vatican documents. Msgr. Smith offers a clear-headed approach to the quandaries of our time precisely because of his training in traditional moral principles and his fidelity to the Catholic magisterium. This book should be in the possession of all seminarians and priests, who are bound to confront moral matters that are not so easily decided at first glance. But lay people, too, will find here rich responses to the challenging and sometimes unresolved moral questions they encounter in their own lives.

The origins of the Enneagram are admitted by all—it comes from the oral tradition of Sufi masters. Sufism is the mysticism of Islam. If you want to check it out in your library, look first under “Occult Sciences”.

The Quest for a Moral Compass

A Global History of Ethics

In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great philosophers, and breathes life into their ideas, while also challenging many of our most cherished moral beliefs. Engaging and provocative, The Quest for a Moral Compass confronts some of humanity's deepest questions. Where do values come from? Is God necessary for moral guidance? Are there absolute moral truths? It also brings morality down to earth, showing how, throughout history, social needs and political desires have shaped moral thinking. It is a history of the world told through the history of moral thought, and a history of moral thought that casts new light on global history. At a time of great social turbulence and moral uncertainty, there will be few histories more important than this.

AlGhazali discovered the truths he was seeking in Sufism, in the 'light which God infused into [my] heart'.8 The transcendent, he came to believe, could neither be apprehended by the senses nor described by human language, ...

Exemplarist Moral Theory

In this book Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, modeled on the Putnam-Kripke theory which revolutionized semantics in the seventies. In Exemplarist Moral Theory, exemplars are identified through the emotion of admiration, which Zagzebski argues is both a motivating emotion and an emotion whose cognitive content permits the mapping of the moral domain around the features of exemplars. Using examples of heroes, saints, and sages, Zagzebski shows how narratives of exemplars and empirical work on the most admirable persons can be incorporated into the theory for both the theoretical purpose of generating a comprehensive theory, and the practical purpose of moral education and self-improvement. All basic moral terms, including "good person," "virtue," "good life," "right act," and "wrong act" are defined by the motives, ends, acts, or judgments of exemplars, or persons like that. The theory also generates an account of moral learning through emulation of exemplars, and Zagzebski defends a principle of the division of moral linguistic labor, which gives certain groups of people in a linguistic community special functions in identifying the extension or moral terms, spreading the stereotype associated with the term through the community, or providing the reasoning supporting judgments using those terms. The theory is therefore semantically externalist in that the meaning of moral terms is determined by features of the world outside the mind of the user, including features of exemplars and features of the social linguistic network linking users of the terms to exemplars. The book ends with suggestions about versions of the theory that are forms of moral realism, including a version that supports the existence of necessary a posteriori truths in ethics.

... 19 on virtue and flourishing, 157 Strauss, Leo, 96–97 Sufism, 1, 2n1 Summa Theologiae (Aquinas), 166, 177 superficial features, 12–13, 91, 104 Swanton, Christine, 160–62, 169 Swartwood, Jason, 94–95 Sweetman, Joseph, 48n21 sympathy, ...

New Religiosities, Modern Capitalism, and Moral Complexities in Southeast Asia

As Southeast Asia experiences unprecedented economic modernization, religious and moral practices are being challenged as never before. From Thai casinos to Singaporean megachurches, from the practitioners of Islamic Finance in Jakarta to Pentecostal Christians in rural Cambodia, this volume discusses the moral complexities that arise when religious and economic developments converge. In the past few decades, Southeast Asia has seen growing religious pluralism and antagonisms as well as the penetration of a market economy and economic liberalism. Providing a multidisciplinary, cross-regional snapshot of a region in the midst of profound change, this text is a key read for scholars of religion, economists, non-governmental organization workers, and think-tankers across the region.

... including the most important one, Muhammadiyah, assigned themselves the task of reforming and modernizing Islam, which still bore the traces of its Hindu-Buddhist heritage and mystical traditions, notably from Sufism.

Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy

The Dispositional Aims of Moral Leaders

Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy situates the reader in a conversation that examines the meaning and nature of moral leadership through the lens of moral literacy and the dispositional aims of moral leadership in educational settings.

Altruism plays a dominant role in Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Sufism, Judaism, and Sikhism (Neusner and Chilton, 2005). All of these religions, though so varied in other ways, encourage preferring others to self; giving of self to ...

Reflections on The Moral & Spiritual Crisis in Education

This book takes a sharply critical view of contemporary society with a searing indictment of our morally and intellectually bankrupt educational system. Uniquely, the book contains both the original version of David Purpel's highly influential Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education, first published in 1989, as well as an updated critique of that work - reflections from our current times of growing despair about the directions of education and the nation. Reflections on the Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education focuses on the possibility - and necessity - of generating hope through the redemptive and energizing power of the human spirit.

From Christian mysticism to Sufism , Kabbalah to Zen , Teachers tell us that , to the extent that a human being believes itself to be limited to such a construct ( a personality inside a body ) , he or she will be possessed by this fear ...

Moral Evolution

Role of Al-Quran

The norms of religious behaviour are , then , held as superfluous and unnecessary and even obstructive . This is where sufism touches the fringes of heresy according to the Orthodox belief .

Resonansi dialog agama dan budaya

dari kebebasan beragama, pendidikan multikultural, sampai RUU anti pornografi

Religious pluralism, multiculturalism, and religious education in Indonesia.

Religious pluralism, multiculturalism, and religious education in Indonesia.